Tom Toro’s Mystery Rea Irvin Drawing; More Spills with Pat Byrnes, Bob Mankoff, BEK, Gilded-Age Cartoonists & More

Every so often, someone runs into a cartoon mystery.  This time it’s New Yorker cartoonist, Tom Toro.  Here’s Tom to explain:   Calling all cartoon sleuths! There’s a mystery afoot.  I managed to get my sticky paws on an original Rea Irvin drawing but I can’t figure out where it was published or what the caption is.   Does anybody

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New Yorker Editor on “Where the Readers Are”; More Spills with Woodman & BEK

From The Guardian, this interesting interview with The New Yorker‘s current editor, David Remnick. A former New Yorker editor, Tina Brown, chimes in as well.  [photo: Laura Barisonzi] note: in the paragraph excerpted below  you’ll notice the mention of “Gadd” cartoons. The word should be “gag” It would be wrong to see the circulation success as the triumph of seriousness.

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BEK & Liana Finck at Williamstown Film Festival; Video: Marchetto on Good Day New York

Bruce Eric Kaplan and Liana Finck will appear October 16th at The Williamstown Film Festival.  Some info here (scroll down to “On Screen, a revamped film festival”)     ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Marisa Acocella Marchetto was on Good Day NY this morning.  See the video clip here. 

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